Chapter 81 1 layer? 2 layers?
Chapter 81 One layer? Two layers?
"Later, although we followed the security guard to find the lamppost closest to the teaching building, it took us almost ten minutes to run from the security guard to the lamppost."
"During the whole process, there must be something wrong with the distance and time, or... everything is wrong."
"And based on my experience just now, the problem should be the distance."
"I found that the lamp posts in front of the dormitory building would move as the ground stretched, thus increasing the distance between them."
"So I think that as the campus layer falls, the lamp posts will be displaced to a certain extent from each other. I don't know the exact distance, but one thing is certain."
"The numbering sequence of street lights in abnormal weather conditions is consistent."
While Lin Yi was speaking, he took out the map from the student rules.
On the "normal" maps that are normally made public, there is a road between the buildings, and both sides of the road are lined with lamp posts with incorrect numbers.
"The order of these street lights is chaotic under normal circumstances, but in abnormal weather, as the campus layer falls, their location information will change from disorder to order as they move."
"You don't need to look at street lights when you walk during the day, so during the day, it doesn't matter if the street lights are in the right position, you just need to make sure they are on both sides of the road."
"It's the same at night, as long as the street lights on both sides of the road are on."
“But when the weather is abnormal, it’s not the case.”
"I think the role of street lights is not only to provide lighting and protection, but also to serve as a signpost to guide us to escape when the floor falls, just like... a safety exit sign."
"Are you done?" Tian Bufan raised his eyes and glanced at Lin Yi.
Lin Yi thought about it, then nodded and said, "That's about it."
"Then let me tell you." Tian Bufan said.
Lin Yi looked at Tian Bufan seriously, looking forward to Tian Bufan's opinion on the street lights.
"First of all, your understanding of street lights is very close to mine, but it's still a little bit off."
"Are you trying to comfort me? Is it just a little bit, or a billion bits and pieces?" Lin Yi made the most hated gesture in Toudou Country, which represented "a little bit".
"Look at this." Tian Bufan motioned Lin Yi to look over here.
Next to him was the piece of paper he had taken from Lin Yi. While Lin Yi was speaking, he had already finished processing the paper.
The processing method is actually very simple, which is to make two small holes on the paper, and then pass the two ends of the silk thread through the small holes respectively.
“The two dots represent two different buildings, and the thread is the road between the buildings.”
Lin Yi nodded. This step was the same as what he had thought before. If he guessed correctly, Tian Bufan should roll up the paper next.
Tian Bufan's action was just as he expected. He crumpled the paper into a ball and flattened it on the table.
Then, Tian Bufan used a pen to trace the part of the silk thread that appeared on the paper, and drew some dots on it.
"We can consider this as the campus under the normal layer." Tian Bufan pointed at the squashed paper ball and added, "It is the campus on the map attached to the student code of conduct."
“These two points represent two buildings.”
“The line I drew with the pen represents the road between the buildings.”
“The points I marked on the line represent street lights along the way.”
Lin Yi nodded. So far, everything was consistent with his "cognition".
Tian Bufan slowly unfolded the paper again, and as he did so, he explained, "This is the process of the layers falling off."
“When the layers start to fall, the map starts to stretch and distort…but this distortion and stretching is actually the true unfolding of the campus.”
"As it turns on, the previously random street lights will return to order... but the distances between them will become different, which is why we were in a hurry for ten minutes before."
After he unfolded the paper completely, he found the location of the dots and wrote some numbers in order with a pen.
“1、2、3、4、5、6……”
After writing, I crumpled up the map again, and the street light numbers really appeared distorted.
“After the layers were restored, it looked like this again.”
Lin Yi nodded. Perhaps it was because his previous sense of crisis was too strong, so he had a particularly deep understanding of the abnormalities of the street lights and campus.
Tian Bufan said: "These are also my discoveries, but... I specially demonstrated it to you, don't you have any other discoveries? Any further discoveries...?"
Lin Yi was slightly stunned. He thought about it seriously, but couldn't understand what Tian Bufan wanted him to discover.
Tian Bufan glanced at the pendulum clock on the wall and said with a smile: "Okay, I've been thinking about it for a minute. Time is tight, so I'll tell you."
Lin Yi touched his nose awkwardly.
Tian Bufan said: "It's a problem with the layers."
"Look... when the campus layer falls, the map unfolds, and when the layer is restored, the map is restored, right?"
"Yeah." Lin Yi listened.
"That's the problem." Tian Bufan said, "Have you noticed that no matter whether the layer falls or recovers, we are all on this piece of paper."
Lin Yi had several question marks on his forehead: "???"
"Don't understand?" Tian Bufan asked.
"I don't quite understand."
"Emm..." Tian Bufan was silent for a moment, thinking about how to express it, and then said, "Let me put it this way."
"This is a layer of a campus." He held the paper in one hand and opened his other hand and put it under the paper. "This is another 'world'."
"I thought that when the layer of the campus fell, the world of the campus would be stretched and a 'gap' would appear, and then when we fell through the gap, we would enter another world."
"But now I have another guess. After the layer fell, the campus is still the campus, but it has changed its form in a way that I cannot understand yet... just like a Transformer that has not completely transformed."
"But regarding the layer conjecture, I haven't found enough information to solve the problem yet."
Just when Tian Bufan wanted to end the topic, Lin Yi suddenly thought of something: "Wait a minute, Mr. Tian!"
He looked at Tian Bufan's palm and said in a deep voice: "Another world may exist."
"I feel like I've stepped on some moss somewhere."
Tian Bufan narrowed his eyes suddenly: "Moss...Okay, I understand."
Tian Bufan's calmness made Lin Yi stunned for a moment, and he couldn't help asking: "Master Tian, have you also seen that world?"
"I had a chance to meet him...I don't know if it's the same place you mentioned." Tian Bufan said.
"Mr. Tian, you...?!" A deep and solemn look appeared in Lin Yi's eyes.
He narrowly escaped death before he saw those things. Could it be that Tian Bufan also experienced the same thing?
But...it doesn't feel like it!
"Don't be curious about how I know this. You have to eat one bite at a time, and some secrets have to be learned bit by bit." Tian Bufan said.
Lin Yi was silent for a moment.
What Tian Bufan knew and how he knew it had always been a mystery. On the one hand, as someone who was also entering the campus for the first time, Tian Bufan showed a vision far beyond his own, which could perhaps be explained by the difference in IQ and thinking.
But on the other hand, Tian Bufan locked some secrets in a box and placed it in front of him, and then told him clearly that he would know the secrets in the future.
"What a contradiction! What secrets does Mr. Tian have that cannot be told now?"
Tian Bufan seemed to be able to read minds and said directly: "I told you 'you will know these secrets later' so that you don't use your limited energy now to think nonsense."
"And I won't tell you what secrets I'm hiding now, because you're not qualified enough now."
"So when can I?"
"Once you have demonstrated sufficient 'adaptability' to this campus."
"'Adapt' again?" Lin Yi asked in confusion, "What exactly do I need to 'adapt' to?"
"What do you mean by 'adapt'? It will be useless if I tell you." Tian Bufan shook his head.
"This...?" Lin Yi was confused, with more and more question marks on his forehead.
"These things are beyond the scope. I'll give you 30 seconds to adjust your thinking, otherwise we will end all discussions... and go to sleep." Tian Bufan said coldly.
After saying that, he turned his attention back to the paper.
"Interesting..." Tian Bufan narrowed his eyes, as if he always had new ideas popping up one after another, "... Really interesting."
Lin Yi took a deep breath and stopped thinking about the secret that Tian Bufan mentioned.
He looked at Tian Bufan and asked, "What do you think?"
Tian Bufan played with the crumpled paper ball: "Look... this campus was built by the person who wrote the rules, or that group of people, right?"
"I wonder...how they were able to build things between the layers."
"They even built things in another world?"
"Apart from that, just laying a road with street lights, and having those street lights appear on the surface successfully, and being able to maintain lighting during the falling layer is very difficult."
Lin Yi was silent for a while.
"..."
"perhaps……"
He narrowed his eyes and said subconsciously, "These were built by the surface layer and the inner layer working together? Just like... sports students and normal art students would work together?"
Tian Bufan showed a look of surprise.
"Uh...what's wrong?" It was rare for Lin Yi to see Tian Bufan with such an expression.
"Nothing." Tian Bufan shook his head slightly, "I'm just surprised you would say that."
"Let's not talk about this issue for now."
"Let's get back to the point. We can discuss the third question here and move on."
"Okay." Lin Yi nodded.
Three: [The street lights will be distributed as the campus layer falls, and then they will be arranged in an orderly number. ]——√
He adjusted his thoughts and continued, "The head teacher will not go to the cafeteria to eat. The security guard will bring the chef to deliver meals to the head teacher."
"The basis is that we encountered the security guards and the chef's meal delivery team yesterday, and there were also food remnants in the trash can of the head teacher's office."
“Also, I haven’t seen anyone with a homeroom badge in the cafeteria.
"But I have never seen a physical education teacher, so I don't know what a physical education teacher is like."
Tian Bufan nodded.
Lin Yi asked: "Mr. Tian, don't you have anything to say here?"
"A little bit." Tian Bufan said, "So far, the security guards have not appeared in normal weather, so I'm not sure if they will only appear in abnormal weather."
Lin Yi also reacted.
In all the codes, any rules that mention security are almost always related to abnormal situations.
"That's not right. There's a rule in the cafeteria that if you see someone entering another passage and the security guard is nearby, you can tell the security guard." Lin Yi said.
Tian Bufan said: "That's right, but this cannot be used as a basis to prove that security guards will appear in the normal layer."
"Because the rules also say, 'and there will be security guards nearby,' so whether the security guards will show up is also a matter of uncertainty."
"Yeah...right." Lin Yi agreed with Tian Bufan's words.
"correct."
"When I returned to the classroom after dinner today, I seemed to see Building D of the teaching building."
"Teaching Building D?" Tian Bufan seemed to be interested. "Tell me more about it."
"Didn't you see it?" Lin Yi was delighted, thinking that he had finally found something that Tian Bufan hadn't discovered.
"Just pretend I didn't see it." Tian Bufan said.
Lin Yi gritted his teeth and said, "You used the word 'when' really well!"
Tian Bufan shrugged: "I just want you to feel a little involved."
"..." Lin Yi showed a hint of resentment, "My sense of participation is already bursting, okay... I don't mind this little bit."
"So, Mr. Tian, you even saw Building D of the teaching building?"
Tian Bufan said: "Don't forget that I'm in Building C."
"After returning to the classroom last night, I vaguely saw the existence of Building D through the window."
"It is hidden in the fog. The architectural style is completely different from Buildings A, B, and C. I suspect that when the layers of the building fell, they also opened up the corridor leading from Building C to Building D."
"The principle is similar to this." He raised the ball of paper. "Even the Art Building that doesn't exist on the map, I think it has a similar principle to Teaching Building D."
Lin Yi's eyelids twitched.
"Yeah! I almost forgot there's an art building!"
Tian Bufan continued, "I suspect that the teaching building itself is also an independent layer that can be expanded. Not only can it extend vertically to Building D, but it can also extend upward to floors above the fifth floor."
"But despite this, the distortion of the teaching building should not be as abnormal as that of the roads and street lights."
"When you entered the campus yesterday, how many floors did you see in the teaching building?"
"Seventh floor." Lin Yi said, "But I feel like the teaching building may have an eighth floor..."
Tian Bufan said: "Maybe there is a ninth floor. Anyway, there are more than four floors under the abnormal layer. Have you noticed that the teaching building has both stairs and elevators installed, but we are not allowed to take the elevator."
"If you want to know the secret of the teaching building, maybe you will find out after taking an elevator." When he said this, Tian Bufan didn't know what he was thinking of, and a smile that was extremely playful and mocking appeared on the corner of his mouth.
Thanks to the book friend "Steve" for the reward!!
(End of this chapter)